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/sˈaʊərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Sour v. t.

To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances. "So the sun's heat, with different powers, Ripens the grape, the liquor sours."

To make cold and unproductive, as soil.

To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. "To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead."

To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. "Souring his cheeks." "Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart."

To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

Sour v. i. (past & past part. soured; pres. part. souring) To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity. "They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity."

noun

Souring n. (Bot.) Any sour apple.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Souring" Quotes from Famous Books

... made his name favorably known. He now turned from fiction to the drama, and it was not until after 1870 that he became fully conscious of his vocation as a novelist, perhaps through the trials of the siege of Paris and the humiliation of his country, which deepened his nature without souring it. Daudet's genial satire, 'Tartarin de Tarascon', appeared in 1872; but with the Parisian romance 'Fromont jeune et Risler aine', crowned by the Academy (1874), he suddenly advanced into the foremost rank of French ...

— Fromont and Risler, Complete • Alphonse Daudet

... burned for causing frost in summer; for destroying crops with hail; for causing storms—for making cows go dry; for souring beer; for putting the devil in emptyings so that they would not rise. The life of no one was secure. To be charged was to be convicted. Every man was at the mercy of every other. This infamous belief was so firmly ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll

... sap is obliged to be kept for many hours in the reservoirs, must be counteracted by throwing into them a few quarts of slaked lime. During the time of sugar making, warm weather, in which the trees will not discharge their sap, sometimes occurs, and the buckets become white and slimy, from the souring of the little sap they contain. In this case they should be brought to the boiler and washed out carefully with hot water, and a ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds